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Behind the poetic names of the DAWN Mill and the Midnight Mine lurks one of today’s most extraordinary environmental disasters. Situated in the center of the Spokane Indian reservation, the now-defunct Midnight Mine provided uranium for nuclear weapons. The resulting pit has filled with acidic water that is eroding the pit walls and releasing uranium from the rock. The DAWN mill on the border of the Spokane, Wash., reservation once processed the uranium for the Midnight Mine. Left behind are the enormous tailings impoundments into which radioactive residual rocks from the mining process were dumped. The groundwater below is radioactive and a plume is moving toward the Spokane river. Everyone wants a cleanup, but Newmont Corporation says it is no longer responsible. Recorded on location by TUC Radio during our 1997 Ecology Tour and updated in May, 2000.60 minutes
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